Tony Ortega is a journalist who was formerly the editor of The Village Voice. He's written about Scientology since 1995, and in May 2015 released a book about Scientology's harassment of Paulette Cooper titled 'The Unbreakable Miss Lovely.' He continues to monitor breaking developments in the Scientology world from an undisclosed location in an underground bunker he shares with four cats and one of them wrinkly Shar Pei dogs. Despite his super-secret security protections, you can still reach him pretty easily by sending him a message at tonyo94 AT gmail.com (Drop him a line if you'd like to get an e-mail whenever a new story is posted.) [Header image courtesy John Rickard]
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Here’s Scientology’s 2021 Super Bowl ad: A pandemic-flavored ‘mystery sandwich’

 So much has been different this year, but Scientology remains consistent and is serving up another mystery sandwich for the Super []

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The unkindest cut: Gen. Mike Flynn breaks it to QAnon patriots that they need to get a life

 Some links to Q-related items today…

Gen. Flynn revealed in an interview that there is no plan, and patriots are grappling with how hard not to believe []

VIDEO: Jon Atack talks to Mike Rinder about his first months aboard Scientology’s ‘Apollo’

[Mike Rinder at 18, in Madeira]

I’ve spoken with more than a thousand Scientologists over the years, but Mike Rinder’s interview is the most vivid and appalling account of daily life aboard the ship run directly by []

Patriots ponder the Super Bowl and hold on to hope, CNN has fun new QAnon footage

 Some links to Q-related items today…

Can patriots keep the faith as so many predictions []

Judge to Valerie Haney: You need to get this Scientology ‘arbitration’ underway

[Valerie Haney and Judge Burdge]

On Tuesday, a hearing took place at Los Angeles Superior Court in Judge Richard Burdge’s courtroom that had been scheduled a year earlier, when the judge first derailed Valerie Haney’s lawsuit against the Church of Scientology and told her to take her complaints to Scientology’s internal “religious []

Scientologist David Gentile charged by feds in $1.8 billion Ponzi-like fraud scheme

[Charges against David Gentile were announced by New York AG Letitia James today.]

For months Jeffrey Augustine has been telling us about wealthy Scientologist David Gentile, a money manager who had lost his investors a lot of money at GBP []

Kevin McCarthy has never heard of QAnon, and other tall tales before the storm

[Kevin McCarthy: What, me worry?]

 Some links to Q-related items today…

Parler’s CEO gets the boot, and patriots are all over []

Ted the tour guide called ‘bigoted hate group’ by Scientologist city board member

[Ted Reinhard and Downtown Development Board chair Paris Morfopoulos]

Well that didn’t take long. On Tuesday we told you about Ted Reinhard, the Clearwater, Florida tour guide who has decided to start offering guided walking tours of the city’s creepy downtown, which is dominated by the Church of Scientology and it’s “spiritual mecca,” the Flag Land []

‘Newsmax DONE’: Patriots shocked by on-air treatment of MyPillow hero Mike Lindell

 Some links to Q-related items []

Is ‘Balance of Nature’ actually Scientology? Well, they have a Hubbard College in their HQ.

 For a few weeks now we’ve been hearing from eagle-eyed former Scientologists who noticed something odd about those ubiquitous ads you run into for the dietary supplements company “Balance of []